Sasha Fay

Odradek

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"At first glance it looks like a flat star-shaped spool for thread, and indeed it does seem to have thread wound upon it; to be sure, they are only old, broken-off bits of thread, knotted and tangled together, of the most varied sorts and colors. But it is not only a spool, for a small wooden crossbar sticks out of the middle of the star, and another small rod is joined to that at a right angle, another rod -a leg on which, together with a star point, it stands upright. If you address it on the stairs where often it lurks, it will tell its name, the tattered threads trembling, and then laugh like dry leaves rustling."
-Franz Kafka, The Cares of a Family Man

"Momentary" at Goldilock's Gallery

2012-01-05T20:09:00.005-05:00

Hey y'all, I know it's been a while but I thought I'd let you know that I am in a group exhibition at Goldilock's Gallery in center city Philadelphia. The show is called "Momentary" as it focuses on issues of patterns in youth and I am displaying 15 photographs taken between 2007 and 2011. Alex Walcroft is in it too! Come on down if you are in the area, there is an after party too.

Hope your new year is off to a good start!

December 14th, 2011

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Look at that horse!
Taken on Megan's grandfather's land, somewhere in PA, an hour and a half away from Tyler. The horse is 25 years old.

December 11th, 2011

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"The cow is my mother."

Jewelry box, bronze plaque, red satin, hamburger meat, dirt and shovel.

Venus Figurines

2011-12-04T22:25:00.003-05:00

Venus of Lespugue
The Mal'ta Venus
And of course, the Venus of Willendorf

November 24th, 2011

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These are the babies I have been creating in my "Off Loom Structure" class. Noxious little guys. And excuse the dying basil plant.

November 2nd, 2011

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Lucy

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Lucy

September 21st, 2011

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Reappraisal: Johannes Kahrs

2011-08-25T19:20:00.003-04:00

Eifer-sucht- Jealousy, 1995
Oil on canvas 144.8 x 175.3 cm
Girl with yellow wig, 2005
Oil on canvas 63 x 56 cmHula girl, 2000
Oil on canvas 190 x 290 cm

August 20th, 2011

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Modern cave living.

August 16th, 2011

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QUI!
Montreal ya'll.

August 9th, 2011

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Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
35mm color film
July 30th, 2011

July 23rd, 2011

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June 15th, 2011

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
35mm color film
June 15th, 2011

Antony

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Close to Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
35mm color film
June 25th, 2011

Laura

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Ambler, Pennsylvania
35mm color film
June 20, 2011

July 17th, 2011

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My new bedroom ;)

July 7th, 2011

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Edvard Munch, why were you sitting across the table from me last night?

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

2011-06-22T17:36:00.006-04:00

"Ten women, most of them in Vancouver or Toronto, talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own first affairs, the pain of breaking up, frequenting gay bars, facing police raids, men's responses, and the etiquette of butch and femme roles. Interspersed among the interviews and archival footage are four dramatized chapters from a pulp novel, "Forbidden Love": Laura leaves her hick town and heads for the city, where she meets Mitch in a bar. Sparks fly, and so do laughter and joy. Ann Bannon, one of the writers of those paperback novels about forbidden love, talks about the genre." -IMDb
This documentary film is too good not to share. I was surprised to learn some things and all of the women are natural, fantastic, and funny.
Here is part 1
There are 10 parts total, but YouTube censored the part 10 because it apparently has an "explicit" sex scene. But I still highly recommend for anyone to watch all the other 9 parts!

Removed by Naomi Uman (1999)

2011-06-19T19:33:00.002-04:00

From IMDb: "Starting with a piece of vintage porn, filmmaker Naomi Uman painstakingly removed each female figure from the footage using nail polish remover, leaving a striking absence where there's usually a fleshy presence. Uman's celebrated film is a smart retort to pornography's obsessive gaze at the female body."

A Portrait of Venice

2011-06-12T16:25:00.005-04:00

Just some video I took during my trip to Venice finally uploaded in a cohesive manner. No sound, just footage.

June 8th, 2011

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June 7th, 2011

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Shots of South Philadelphia from a two dollar disposable camera used on May 25th, 2011.

Reappraisal: Romain Brooks

2011-06-06T16:55:00.003-04:00

“Le Trajet”, “The Crossing”, Ida Rubinstein ca. 1900-1911.

“La Jaquette Rouge”, 1910.

‘White Azaleas”, 1910.

“Femme Avec Des Fleurs” or “Spring”, 1912.

Self Portrait by Romaine Brooks (detail), 1923.
During Brooks’ younger years, psychologists, social standards, counselors, and doctors predominantly considered homosexuality to be a mental defect or disorder. Brooks, an American, chose to live most of her life in France, where her lifestyle was less persecuted and where she could live in a social community of individuals who were not exclusively heterosexual.
A fascinating painter not to skim over!

European Token Tin- Some Souvenirs from Europe

2011-06-04T21:21:00.005-04:00

An antique rosary Alex bought me at Porta Portese in Roma. Alex haggled the price down from 8 euro to 5. :)

A hand-crafted tiny sheepish lamb creature from Via San Gregorio Armeno in Naples. It was sadly injured during it's trip to the Colosseum, and lost a foot. :(

Both Alex and I were given a piece of the Berlin Wall from a worker in the St. Thomas Church in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. I offered to pay for it, but the man was very sweet and kept insisting in German for Alex and I to just take them.A scrap of peeled paper with writing from the wall of Serge at 5 Rue de Verneuil, Paris.

And all these little things are kept in this small tin I bought from an old, charming Venetian man who was selling belongings from a boat along a canal as the sun was setting in Venice.

Black Narcissus (1947) by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

2011-05-31T17:23:00.005-04:00

Trailer
"Remember, the superior of all is the servant of all." -Mother Dorothea

The Night of the Hunter (1955) by Charles Laughton

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Trailer

"Ah, little lad, you're staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil? H-A-T-E! It was with this left hand that old brother Cain struck the blow that laid his brother low. L-O-V-E! You see these fingers, dear hearts? These fingers has veins that run straight to the soul of man. The right hand, friends, the hand of love. Now watch, and I'll show you the story of life. Those fingers, dear hearts, is always a-warring and a-tugging, one agin t'other. Now watch 'em! Old brother left hand, left hand he's a fighting, and it looks like love's a goner. But wait a minute! Hot dog, love's a winning! Yessirree! It's love that's won, and old left hand hate is down for the count!"
-Robert Mitchum as Rev. Harry Powell (An amazingly unsettling performance.)

May 21st, 2011

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A few pages from my sketchbook/scrapbook/garbage book I kept while abroad in Rome and during my travels around Europe. I have a habit of picking up aesthetically pleasing wrappers and labels off the ground and hoarding them in books. Clicking on the images to see them bigger is quite satisfying.

May 16th, 2011

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Taken in the town of Todi, Italy

The Catacombs of Paris

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The ossuary holds the remains of about 6 million people.

Serge Gainsbourg Pilgrimage

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Gainsbourg's grave at Montparnasse Cemetery, in Paris

The "Wall of Serge" at 5a, Rue De Verneuil, Paris
And I will leave you with a few favorite songs by the great man himself:
L'anamour
La Javanaise
Je T'aime,...Moi Non Plus
Merci Gainsbourg!

April 21st, 2011

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Off to Paris on Sunday for five days, and back to Philly May 1st.

Some Colors and Textures of Venice

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and video soon :)

The Floating City

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Venice!

Today at Piazza Navona

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I tried to watch a protest during my art history lecture.

April 2nd, 2011

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Here are photos of some recent darkroom prints.

Bernini vs. Borromini

2011-03-29T14:27:00.005-04:00

Bernini's Sant'Andrea al Quirinale:
Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (San Carlino):
(I think Borromini wins this round)

March 27th, 2011

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St. Peter's Square

and St. Antony :)

Porta Portese

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So much stuff. Too much stuff. Thousands of vendors with a few gems.

A Bit of Berlin

2011-03-12T14:43:00.001-05:00

A Bit of Berlin from Sasha Parker on Vimeo.

March 9th, 2011

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Awkward sheep in ancient Rome!
And on another note, I think this stuff is bangin', and I do not use that word lightly. I am not too into the music videos though, which is a shame.
Thank you Coilhouse.

Ich liebe Berlin!

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Video coming soon too!

February 25th, 2011

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-Itty bitty awkward hand made sheep from Naples

-Mount Vesuvius

A few bulletin points on Rome so far:

-I saw Giovanni Lanfranco’s dome of Sant’Andrea della Valle and his dome of the Cappella of San Gennaro in the Cathedral of Naples in the same week.

-I have seen around 20 paintings by Caravaggio.

-"Why have you put a horse in the middle, and Saint Paul on the ground?" "Because!" "Is the horse God?" "No, but he stands in God's light!"
-an official of Santa Maria del Popolo talking to Caravaggio

Like many others, I am enamored by Caravaggio, and took a class specifically on the Baroque for that reason. I found his work accessible compared to other painters of the 16th or 17th century, as it combines realism of the human state with theatrics and dramatic lighting. Caravaggio was working in the time of the Counter-Reformation, where his schtick was extreme naturalism with tenebrism to help get people back in the Roman Catholic church. Alhtough he was commissioned by cardinals and churches, Caravaggio would constantly break decorum and was known to use prostitutes as models for the Virgin Mary. Depictions of saints and Christ felt foreign to me in the past, for I have had no education on Catholicism or saints, but Caravaggio’s depictions have allowed me to get beyond the religious to a more humanitarian meaning; whether or not those were his intentions, I am not sure.
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula is one of the last paintings ever made by Caravaggio, and is now in the Intesa Sanpaolo Bank in Naples. Saint Ursula, accompanied by eleven thousand virgins, was captured by the Huns. The eleven thousand virgins were slaughtered, but the king of the Huns was overcome by Ursula's modesty and beauty and asked if she would marry him. Ursula replied that she would not, upon which the king shot an arrow directly at her chest.
The painting, done in 1610, brings the action of that arrow directly into the space of the viewer. We see the moment when the king let’s go of his bow and Ursula looks down in mild shock and confusion at the stick poking out of her chest. To the right a few men stare in shock, one of them, the upturned face behind Ursula, apparently Caravaggio himself. The image is climactic and overwhelming.

To be honest, an hour after I saw this painting, I began crying on the bus home over it.

-I was in the Pantheon one morning for four hours drawing. It was a little tedious and pouring rain, but being the first to arrive that day to see a white pigeon (or maybe it was the holy spirit) flying around the opening of the dome, with rain falling through, was you know, one of those moments.

-Naples pizza is the best pizza I have ever had.

-Bernini’s statues are alive.

-Porta Portese is an overwhelming flea market that pulls over 3,000 venders together every Sunday into chaos and treasure hunting bliss. I kid you not, miles and miles of crap, but little rows of antique rosaries and Italian porn.

-Kinder surprise eggs!

-Frigidarium gelato! (Alex is obsessed.)

-I am off tomorrow to Berlin for 10 days for spring break! Eee!

February 11th, 2011

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Sorry about the absence of postings, it is a bit tricky right now to keep up with my digital SLR while I am shooting two rolls of 36 exposures a week. But being in the darkroom again is very refreshing!
Although tomorrow I am going to an anti-Berlusconi protest, so expect another post in the next day or so.

Little kids constantly leave trails of scattered confetti along the streets of Rome :D

February 1st, 2011

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Via di Ripetto

January 27th, 2011

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Layers and layers.

Tuscania

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Classes have started

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Most of my classes are on-site. Today my Baroque Art History class met at the Vatican Museums.

Todi and Orvieto

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Today we saw the beautiful mystique of the town of Todi with the Temple Rome gang and sat to a four hour feast in the countryside of Orvieto. Todi was blanketed in thick fog which added to the mystery of the hill town. It was utterly unbelievable how gorgeous the views were and the amount of food served to us.

"We call 'em as we see 'em"

2011-01-15T15:39:00.011-05:00

Cat, car, and Colosseum

A short ciao from Rome

2011-01-14T10:51:00.006-05:00

Alex on a street in Rome

Bridge across the Tiber river on the way to school

Temple Rome's building

Alex and I wandered into a park last night that was very dark, almost pitch black at times. We aren't sure of the park's name or the exact location right now, but there were beautiful moments like the above.

Alex's first real Italian cannoli from a Cafe' nearby our apartment
All in all so far we have been walking a huge amount, drinking cafe' a lot (pure espresso), attempting to speak Italian to natives for directions (getting lost), dealing with orientation, eating yummy gelato, gnocchi, pesto, and pasta with vodka sauce, and going to the market for fresh, cheap produce.
But more to come soon!

Natasha Poly by Willy Vanderperre

2011-01-07T21:49:00.003-05:00

A women taken by the sea.
Photography by Willy Vanderperre, styling by Jane How

Alexander

2010-12-31T14:12:00.009-05:00

Hi, hi! So I want to take this time to introduce you all to a wonderful person who is refurbishing an internet home for himself. The astonishing Alexander is a grand artist, a noteworthy musician, and all in all, well, just the love of my own life! Clap for him, cheer for him, and give a warm welcome to Alexander!

A Photo A Day, 2010 (All together now!)

2010-12-31T13:46:00.007-05:00

A Photo A Day, 2010

New Layout

2010-12-26T19:35:00.002-05:00

Lost in black, and it feels like home.

Motion

2010-12-19T16:32:00.004-05:00

(Bruce Nauman, Rosas Danst Rosas)

A Portrait of My Room

2010-12-17T13:37:00.001-05:00

Light and Shadows, A Portrait of My Room At House 2109 from Sasha Parker on Vimeo.

December 17th, 2010

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I AM DONE WITH FINALS!
I CAN NOW CONCENTRATE AND PREPARE FOR ROME 2011!
HO INTENZIONE DI ROCK IL MONDO ROMANO!

You are bobbing for apples.

2010-12-09T21:04:00.004-05:00

"You are bobbing for apples.
A happy marriage to you both.
נישואים מאושרים לשניכם"

December 7th, 2010

I did yet another performance piece for my sculpture final (stills above from Gahee's wonderful video she took). I might post the actual video at some point in time. But for now I want to attempt to write-up what happens in this piece.
In the performance I walk up to a wall and take down a headpiece and a two-wrist cuff that both hang on individual nails. Both the headpiece and cuff are made of braided muslin. There are two rubber 10-gallon buckets atop a sheet of wax paper that is still connected to the roll. The bucket on the left is empty while the bucket on the right is filled about half way with grape and beet juice. Two kosher grape juice bottles sit next to the left bucket. Two post-it size cards are on the floor stating what is quoted above. I kneel down beside the bucket on the right. My body is facing against the audience and I am still for 30 seconds. I put the head piece on my head and my eyes become concealed. I place my hands behind my back and put on the cuff. I then begin to dunk my head into the bucket, stay under for about 20 seconds, and rise. I continue this six more times, each time pushing my head further to the bottom of the bucket. As my head rises each time, the head piece becomes more saturated with the beet and grape juice, and my gurgling and breathing becomes heavier. When I finish dunking I take off one side of the cuff and then the head piece. I ring the headpiece over the bucket of juice and toss it in the bucket to the left of me. I then reach my hand into the right bucket and pull out a single beet. I take the beet and walk over to the cards on the floor and cross out the line "You are bobbing for apples." I walk away.

November 28th, 2010

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Bed with John, Yoko, Serge, and Jane

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November 22nd, 2010

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-Completed a simple chain harness. I used 22 gauge silver for the chain making and I dunked the finished piece in liver of sulfur for a shiny black coat. Mmm.
-G parents from Manchester, England visiting.
-Got another scholarship :)
-Dia: Beacon in Beacon, NY. Joesph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, John Chamberlain, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol.
-Finals are here and I am surprisingly not in a total panic (please stay this way).
-Knitting steel wire. Ripping apart my fingers.
-Making little videos of shadows and light.
-Scarves, space heater, red comforter... wanting to hibernate.
-Winter break starts December 18th.
-ROME IN LESS THAN TWO MONTHS.

November 12th, 2010

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Memorial, memory, mystery, or metamorphosis. In and out, in and out. Keep my neck straight and my back loose. I feel gray.

November 10th, 2010

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Horses both are noble and animals as statues, but also get turned into soap and glue.

Monument Project

2010-11-09T19:58:00.002-05:00

Byōbu (wind wall), 2010. Stock metal, wax paper, needle and thread
by Sasha Parker and Scott Rinehart

Shade Compositions and The Third Memory

2010-11-08T21:01:00.002-05:00

Shade Compositions (2009)
by Rashaad Newsome
(watch the entire video)

The Third Memory
a film by Pierre Huyghe (1999)

November 6th, 2010

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Think high-priestess, witchcraft, impassioned agents of change.
Think like god.

Good Video Work

2010-11-06T21:55:00.001-04:00

Good video work:

Harun Farocki
Video works available at the Media Resources Center – Eye Machine I, II and III, Workers Leaving the Factory, Images of the World and the Inscription of War, Still Life
Candice Breitz
Check out her video works like Mother/Father, Queen and King on her website
Chris Marker
Creator of La Jettee
Zhou Hongxiang
Check out Chinese Portraiture

November 4th, 2010

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-Working on a monument project for sculpture that will be installed for Tuesday. It is a partner project and Scott and I have been using MIG welding, stick welding, and grinding. Altogether it is around 14 ft x 4 1/2 ft. Hard shit. We ordered around 250 ft of metal from Metal Stock.
-Modeled for a friend and modeling for another friend Saturday
-Talked at Foundation Lecture on Tuesday about my internship with Nichola. Initially I had no idea I would be talking in front of 150 people, and I ending up just winging it. The presentation went well though
-Got my tickets for Rome! I am leaving January 9th, 2011 and coming back May 1st. Alex and I are staying an extra week after the semester ends :)
-My grandparents will be coming from Manchester on Wednesday
-I was a dominatrix for Halloween
-NY again next Saturday
-Cold weather, drinking lots of tea
-And I got a nice scholarship for my study abroad in Rome!

Halloween

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maîtresse

Prequel/Sequel Performance on Claude Cahun

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Stills from a performance piece based on a self portrait by Claude Cahun (first image)

There is a lot going on...

2010-10-26T11:23:00.000-04:00

10/25/10 from Sasha Parker on Vimeo.

Reappraisal: Edvard Munch

2010-10-21T12:04:00.009-04:00

Puberty, 1895

Kiss by the Window, 1892

Vampire 1893-94

The Sick Child, 1907

Madonna, 1884-85
I recommend the film Edvard Munch by Peter Watkins.

Attire and Garb

2010-10-17T20:38:00.002-04:00

October 11th, 2010

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I am a sorrowful person, a dark breathing gal. I cry and I moan, I observe the dimmer parts of life with a welcoming gaze. A thick air of bronze filings and sap excites me, it doesn't bring me down.

There is a vitality in the periods where my chin points to the ground and my eyes don't follow past or before you.

Surreal Days

2010-10-10T02:09:00.004-04:00

and surreal nights
feels like a double life
(Photo credits shared with Alex Walcroft)

God x God

2010-10-02T21:46:00.003-04:00

Dieu x Dieu / D I E U = moi = Dieu

(En voilà des façons de traiter l'absolu!)
(God x God / God = I = God)
(Such are the ways of treating the absolute!)
-Claude Cahun

September 30th, 2010

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In progress.
-I am feeling really good lately.
-I am in a good state, things feel balanced, and hell, I am going to forget modesty for a moment and say that I am kicking ass at what I do.
-I saw SWANS Tuesday night, shook Gira and Hahn's hand, and I am now sucked into their earlier albums, hardly turning them off (nothing really has changed there).
-Finishing up three rings for my jewelry class.
-Working on a performance piece as a sequel/prequel to a photo by Claude Cahun.
-It is beginning to sink in that I will be in Rome next semester (I can't grasp it yet!)
-Sanding blue wax for hours and enjoying the meditative rhythm of it.
-Almost fully back to all natural, unprocessed grub.
-I am absorbed in sculpture <-> life.
-NYC for the day October 16th to look at art.

Sunday

2010-09-26T20:52:00.002-04:00

Casting in Bronze

2010-09-24T14:20:00.004-04:00

I melted down a broken plastic ring given to me by Alex years back, recasted it in bronze, and put a large safety pin through it.

September 22nd, 2010

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Melting down bronze and silver
Investing with plaster
Carving and filing blue wax
Monitoring the wood shop
Cutting fiberglass (wearing a Tyveck suite, face mask, glasses, and booties)
Knitting
Hand stitching and sewing on the machine
Composing and photographing
Story telling and performing
Collecting
Boiling and cooking
Writing and note taking
Critiquing and analyzing
Not documenting

Television Sucks!

2010-09-14T22:25:00.002-04:00

Yet again, thanks to Alex

Reappraisal: Janine Antoni

2010-09-12T21:31:00.003-04:00

"Saddle"
2000
Full rawhide (cow), 25 2/3 x 32 1/2 x 78 5/8 inches

"Lick and Lather," detail
1993
7 soap and 7 chocolate self-portrait busts, 24 x 16 x 13 inches each

"Loving Care"
1993

"Eureka"
1993
Bathtub, lard and soap; made from lard displaced by artist's body

Ladies and Gentlemen, LAURIE ANDERSON

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Thanks Alex

September 4th, 2010

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Fifty Days at Illiam
1978

Cy Twombly

August 29th, 2010

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Fall 2010 Schedule

Monday:
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM Gender in America
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM Digital Imaging
3:40 PM - 6:10 PM Jewelry
Tuesday:
9:30 AM - 10:50 AM Quantitative Methods in Social Science
12:30 PM - 6:00 PM Sculpture
Wednesday:
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM Gender in America
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM Digital Imaging
3:40 PM - 6:10 PM Jewelry
Thursday:
9:30 AM - 10:50 AM Quantitative Methods in Social Science
11:00 Am - around 5:00 PM Work at Nichola's
Friday:
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM Gender in America
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM Quantitative Methods in Social Science

August 16th, 2010

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Happy about:
-The end of Immigration and Ethnicity and Mosaic I class. No more thick books sweating with heavy substances for a while. I need a break from the "examined life".
-Listening to Swans
-Finally getting away from listening to Swans
-My new Swans tee
-Seeing Swans in September
-Placing little packages around South Philly and receiving emails from those who find them (one person was a kick-ass taxidermist)
-The four kittens at Alex's new abode (see photos below)
-My hair
-Completing the study abroad application
-Candles, incense, and coffee (what's new?)
-Gold-leafing hair (still)
-Sculpture, Digital Photo, and Jewelry in two weeks (Oy Vey)

More Kittens

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A Woman Under the Influence

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John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence

Truly remarkable.

8/8/10

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8/2/10

2010-08-02T13:24:00.000-04:00

8/1/10

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7/31/10

7/25/10

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A list of books, movies, and places visited over the past couple of weeks:

-The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest texts in history
-Freud's Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
-Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
-Alex's studio
-The Mütter Museum, always a treat
-Dead Man, a film by the beloved Jim Jarmusch
-Let The Right One In, a film based on the vampire fiction (not that Twilight crap) novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist
-Fox, a book about, well foxes, and the many different perspectives and stories that surround them
-And, Plato 5 Dialogues (What fun.)

This heat hurts. Please go away high 90 degree weather.

7/18/10

2010-07-22T15:29:00.001-04:00

7/18/10
Self detective work I suppose.

July 14th, 2010

2010-07-14T16:52:00.000-04:00

July 13th, 2010

2010-07-13T19:25:00.001-04:00

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July 12th, 2010

2010-07-13T00:00:00.001-04:00

Yesterday

2010-07-07T17:20:00.004-04:00

The Epic of Gilgamesh and Rebel Without a Cause